Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Marshall House was a hotel that stood on the corner of King Street and South Pitt Street in Alexandria, Virginia. At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, it was the site of the killing of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth during the Union army takeover of Alexandria. Ellsworth was a popular and highly prominent officer and a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first conspicuous casualty and the first officer killed in battle in the war, and his death became a cause célèbre for the Union. He was shot by the hotel proprietor James W. Jackson after removing a Confederate flag from the roof of the hotel, and Jackson was then killed immediately after he killed Ellsworth.On the other side, Jackson was celebrated for flying the flag and dying while defending the Confederate cause. At the current Hotel Monaco Alexandria, which was built on the site where the Marshall House once stood, a plaque at the corner of the building commemorates the death of Jackson, who it calls the \"first martyr to the cause of Southern Independence\" and says \"was killed by federal soldiers while defending his property and personal rights\". The plaque makes no mention of Jackson's shotgun slaying of Col. Ellsworth."@en }
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- Marshall_House_(Alexandria,_Virginia) abstract "The Marshall House was a hotel that stood on the corner of King Street and South Pitt Street in Alexandria, Virginia. At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, it was the site of the killing of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth during the Union army takeover of Alexandria. Ellsworth was a popular and highly prominent officer and a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first conspicuous casualty and the first officer killed in battle in the war, and his death became a cause célèbre for the Union. He was shot by the hotel proprietor James W. Jackson after removing a Confederate flag from the roof of the hotel, and Jackson was then killed immediately after he killed Ellsworth.On the other side, Jackson was celebrated for flying the flag and dying while defending the Confederate cause. At the current Hotel Monaco Alexandria, which was built on the site where the Marshall House once stood, a plaque at the corner of the building commemorates the death of Jackson, who it calls the \"first martyr to the cause of Southern Independence\" and says \"was killed by federal soldiers while defending his property and personal rights\". The plaque makes no mention of Jackson's shotgun slaying of Col. Ellsworth.".